General Motors (GM) has paused production of its BrightDrop electric delivery vans at its CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, citing softer-than-expected demand. The halt temporarily lays off 1,200 workers and is set to last until October 2025.

General Motors attributes the pause to a need to adjust its BrightDrop inventory and make production meet slower-than-expected demand rather than Trump’s tariffs. The CAMI plant, dedicated to BrightDrop vans, has seen sluggish sales, with CBC News reporting that only 1,956 of GM’s electric vans have been sold across Canada and the U.S. The GM BrightDrop’s high inventory levels further prompted the automaker to scale back operations.

When GM’s BrightDrop plant reopens in fall 2025, it will operate on a single shift, resulting in 500 permanent job cuts. During the downtime, GM plans to retool the facility for the 2026 BrightDrop van, signaling a strategic pivot to optimize future output. Despite the pause, GM emphasized its long-term commitment to the BrightDrop brand and the CAMI plant.

The move underscores broader challenges in the commercial electric vehicle (EV) market, where adoption has lagged behind projections. Unlike passenger EVs, delivery vans face unique hurdles, including infrastructure limitations and cost concerns for fleet operators. GM’s decision mirrors industry trends, as other automakers adjust production to match market realities.

Regardless of the temporary production halt, GM remains focused on scaling BrightDrop. The scaled-down restart in 2025 aims to better align with demand while maintaining quality.

Analysts see GM’s pause as a pragmatic response to an oversupplied market. BrightDrop launched with high expectations and competes in a niche segment where rivals like Ford’s E-Transit also face headwinds. GM’s ability to adapt its production strategy could position BrightDrop for a stronger rebound when demand stabilizes.

The layoffs and production freeze mark a cautious step for GM, balancing short-term challenges with long-term EV ambitions. As the industry navigates a bumpy transition to electrification, GM’s moves at its CAMI factory reflect the delicate dance of scaling innovation amid market uncertainty.

Tesla has revealed the Superchargers that have won the most votes in the first voting round of the year, as the latest part of a series of windows in which owners can vote on the most-suggested locations from previous rounds.

On Monday, Tesla officially opened the next round of voting on proposed Supercharger locations for Q2, and owners can now vote on the sites that were proposed in the last round on the company’s website. The company has also shared the full list of winners from the Q1 round of voting, primarily including sites within the U.S., along with a handful scattered across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Canada wasn’t included in this quarter’s Supercharger winners, despite the previous voting round including five winners from both the U.S. and Canada. At the time of writing, Tesla’s current leaderboard for the newly opened voting round includes the following locations in the top five: Istanbul West, Turkey; Quebec, Canada cities Trois-Rivières, Vaudreuil-Dorion, and Mont-Laurier; and Prosper, Texas in the U.S.

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You can see the full list of Q1 2025 Supercharger winners below, as posted by Tesla on X, or see them indicated by a gold trophy icon on Tesla’s Find Us page.

Tesla Supercharger Q1 2025 voting round winners in North America

• Fredericksburg, TX
• Clarksville, TN
• Roswell, NM
• Lake Havasu City, AZ
• Long Beach, CA
• McAlester, OK
• Big Creek, GA
• Lake Wales, FL
• Decatur, IL
• Henderson, NV

Tesla Supercharger Q1 2025 voting round winners in Europe and the Middle East

• Wrocław, Poland
• Bari, Italy
• Vilnius, Lithuania
• Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
• Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Tesla Supercharger Q1 2025 voting round winners in the Asia-Pacific region

• Namyangju – Dasan, South Korea
• Nicholls, Australia
• Ipoh, Malaysia

Tesla’s Superchargers and voting rounds

Tesla began offering voting rounds on Superchargers in 2022, and it now runs them quarterly, letting drivers vote on locations that were top-performing proposed locations from previous rounds. The company has also been opening its Supercharger sites to non-Tesla vehicles across the industry over the past several months, and Hyundai, Honda, and Acura were the latest brands to gain access to the network.

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Authorities have arrested and charged a suspect in connection with a firebombing attack on a Tesla store in New Mexico, amidst a larger wave of vandalism attempts targeting the company’s vehicles and retail locations.

On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced that a suspect had been arrested in relation to a pair of firebombing attempts on Tesla’s Albuquerque store, saying that authorities would attempt to seek up to 40 years in prison for the suspect.

Later in the day, the Albuquerque resident, 40-year-old Jamison Wagner, had officially been charged related to separate fires at the Tesla store on February 9 and at a nearby Republican Party office on March 30, according to a report Bloomberg. The suspect is charged with two counts of malicious destruction of property by fire or explosives.

“We have made an arrest in connection to the February firebombing of a New Mexico Tesla dealership and the March attack on the New Mexico Republican Party Headquarters,” Bondi wrote in a post on X. “We will be prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law. We are seeking up to 40 years in prison—no negotiating.”

🚨 Elon Musk announces the measures Tesla is taking to fight the vandalism that has been going on at stores across the country https://t.co/rAZzbzLayQ

— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) March 20, 2025

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Patel went on to say in his own post that evidence recovered at the crime scene suggested that the arrest, made on Saturday, prevented further arson attempts.

The February attack involved two Tesla vehicles that had been set on fire, along with graffiti saying “Tesla Nazi Inc,” “Die Elon,” and drawings of swastikas, court documents show.

After gaining a search warrant for Wagner’s home, Federal investigators discovered evidence that linked him to both the Tesla store attack and the Republican headquarters attack, including incendiary devices and spray paint identified as the graffiti at the crime scenes.

The news follows a series of vandalism targeting Tesla stores in the U.S. and around the world, in response to Elon Musk’s controversial involvement with the administration of President Donald Trump.

Over the past few months, Bondi, Patel, Musk, and the Trump administration have repeatedly vowed to prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law in the past several weeks, along with noting that the attacks would be considered “domestic terrorism.”

In late March, authorities charged another vandal in connection with a Las Vegas repair center fire, concluding that the alleged attacker had used Molotov cocktails to set the building and five vehicles on fire. The same week, another 17 cars at a Tesla store in Rome, Italy were set on fire, while the country’s anti-terror police unit, the General Investigations and Special Operations Division, known as DIGOS, continues to investigate how the fire began.

Last Tuesday, Tesla announced that the company was working with the FBI to investigate an explosion at a Supercharger in Lacey, Washington. While a suspect hasn’t been arrested, authorities and users online have since been circulating photos from surrounding security footage to attempt to identify a man who is now wanted by police in connection with the attack.

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